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Things I Read That I Love #167: The Dark Fruits Of The Life I Had Chosen
Topics include showbiz seniors, independent Black American film-making, genetic sexual attraction, prostitution in Germany and so much more! Also an essay by the late David Carr.
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Things I Read That I Love #162: I Suspect That Everyone I Know Might Reject Me At Any Moment
Topics include Nicholas Sparks, the day she left her son in the car, The Dead Dad Club, IKEA, Pam & Tommy and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #170: Like The Truth Was Such A Pleasure To Step into
Topics include race in Silicon Valley, Ophelia, the Famous Writers School, The Jinx and Serial, the beginnings of the North American slave trade and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #168: Profound Shame And Fantastic Imagination
Topics include this business of art, tupperware, David Carr, The New York Times, Miranda July, for-profit foster care, arson science and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #166: She Wished She Could Grab The Happiness
Topics include the Albuquerque police department, Mary Gaitksill, 50 Shades of Grey, how San Francisco looks in “Looking,” Sweden, a letter from a death row inmate and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #160: Smarter Than She Wants You To Know
Topics include Jay from the Adnan Syed case, Radio Shack, The Doodler Murders, Sex after pregnancy, “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” and Dorothy Allison on “A Question of Class.”
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12 Places To Read Really Good Longform Writing Online
I’ve written 160 weekly roundups of the best longform on the web which means I’ve got a pretty solid grip on this topic.
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Things I Read That I Love #154: Hides Junk Food All Over Her Bedroom
Topics include international development, Chris Rock, My Little Ponies, water parks, Asian-Americans on TV, the gay wing of the LA County jail, writing POC and MOAR!
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Things I Read That I Love #152: To Make Thunder Where There Was No Lightning
Topics include “redneck reality TV,” cheerleading, Guantánamo, Reality Bites, rehab, Modern farmer, men and feminism and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #136: I Fell So Hard for Tomato Juice One Summer
Topics include class rage, the crash of EgyptAir 990, the cruise ship industry, elephant abuse at the circus, Justin Bieber, falling in love with everything and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #128: His Favorite Place in LA These Days is Home Depot.
Topics include Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, Alex Trebek, Murderabilia, privilege, egg donation, Dr.Drew, heroin addiction and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #133: I Cannot Confirm or Deny That I May Have Kissed Two or Three or Maybe Even Five of Them
Topics include Vintage Black Glamour, Dov Charney & Terry Richardson & Vice, hospice care, The Mighty Ducks trilogy, summer matinees and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #130: Let Jolene Live Fierce and Free and Pure Fantasy
Topics include being “that woman,” a botched death row case, fradulent food, dead poet’s society, the Scopes Monkey trial, murder, more on the 9/11 museum and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #127: Waiting For The Garden of Eden To Open Up Again Under A New Management
Topics include Nuyorican poets, Nigeria, MSN Messenger, gendered toys, Miley Cyrus, domestic violence, Miley Cyrus and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #121: You Don’t Want To Fall In Love With Your Own Story Of Tragedy.
Topics include underpaid cheerleaders, the “gig economy,” Circle Football, Rebecca Walker, heroin, sex ed, grad school, Upworthy and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #123: I Am Not A Melodramatic Person.
Topics include Clueless, wounds and self-denial, cults, Vera Nabakov, the Top Chef cruise, a botched rape investigation and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #120: Alfred Kinsey’s Report Makes No Mention Of Games Of Spin-The-Bottle
Topics include the Branch Davidian siege, women writing about sex, autism/disney, traveling while black, Cool Girls, endometriosis and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #111: But If I Was Holding A Coconut
Topics include fundamentalist Christian homeschooling, V.C. Andrews, BUST Magazine, the Backstreet Boys, the House of Prayer, ghostwriting, The Greyhound and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #118: Folks Are Well-Intentioned and Stupid, Well-Intentioned and Broken
Topics include solitary confinement, the Barista class, the burrnesha of Albania, Back to the Future II, Swissair Flight 111, Dazed & Confused and so much more. Srsly this is a good one.
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Things I Read That I Love #116: We Should Seek Maximum Publicity and Maximum Debunking
Topics include murder, addiction, ghosting for Julian Assange, masking, movie novelizations, Gitmo and more!